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...comment which has some merit. The comment was that the offense of the Lampoon's editors was a natural consequence of the Harvard administration's "policy of aristocratic and contemptuous indifference toward a group of unfortunate workers." After all, a university administration which has been content to evade and becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State law and to make it necessary for a group of sensitive graduates to raise by public subscription money which the university really owed to these workers cannot complain if its undergraduate humorists adapt their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pig Wit | 2/4/1931 | See Source »

...sight of their public duty when in a Walpole-like fashion they refuse to go to the polls on a straightforward platform. Prohibition is the issue in this election and it is an issue of grave importance for the future welfare of the Commonwealth. For the Republican press to becloud that issue with nonsense about a Democratic depression is to affirm their belief in the doctrine that it is easy to fool enough of the people at election time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAND OLD PROSPERITY | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

...voluntary generosity on the part of the firm involved should take it upon himself to interpret the will of the donor without an express statement from him. Mr. Kent's position in his profession can only increase the regret that he has taken it upon himself to becloud a policy that would seem to be clearly d both by precedent and a common sense interpretation of the conditions governing the award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDFUL OF SILVER | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

...waiting ?oh, how eagerly!?for the old-fashioned friction that has unfortunately characterized so many Democratic conventions in the past. . . . The G. 0. P. is depending upon us to 'spill the beans' here. Let us disappoint them. I ask for speed on this convention, not to becloud good judgment but to spell efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Platform | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Koehler's Budget | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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